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Ray Burlingame-Goff, G4FON passed away on 29 July. First licensed as G8HMH in 1973 and then as G4FON in 1976, he was the President of the First Class CW Operators' Club. He wrote the Koch method "CW Trainer" and "CW Contest Trainer" (https://www.g4fon.net/), which have been used by many to improve their Morse skills. Given at the 2018 RSGB convention, Ray's presentation "Improving your Morse Code skills from 5NN TU to effortless casual rag-chewing" is still available on the FOC website:
https://www.g4foc.org/Improving-Your-CW

Wolf Harranth, OE1WHC passed away on 3 August after a short illness. He would have celebrated his 80th birthday on 19 August. An acclaimed author of children's book, an award-winning literary translator and a journalist, Harranth became known also for his work at Radio Oesterreich International, where he was in charge of popular programmes for shortwave amateurs from 1969 until the station was discontinued in 2000.
Harranth was the founder and CEO of DokuFunk (https://www.dokufunk.org/), the non-profit "Documentation Archive for Research into the History of Radio Communications and Electronic Media" based in Vienna: started as a QSL card collection, today the archive contains about six million objects, including 1,500 bequests, making it the world's largest institution with archives and collections of all kinds on the history of radio, with a focus on broadcasting and amateur radio. In recognition of his commitment and dedication, in 2017 IARU Region 1 awarded the "Roy Stevens, G2BVN, Memorial Trophy" to him.